Sample Safe Work Permit

It is important, before a worker begins a task, to identify and address the hazards of the task. With routine jobs, or jobs that are essentially the same each time they're performed, this hazard identification can be performed once, safeguards put in place, and workers trained; then the task can be done over and over again, safely. However, there are some job tasks where hazard and safeguard identification must be performed every time the job is done, either because the hazards vary each time the task is performed, or because the task is so infrequent or unusual that no standard procedures are in place. For circumstances like these, you can protect workers with an internal permitting process that walks them through the process of evaluating and addressing all hazards before they begin to work. . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)